intercom
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔm\
The verdict
“intercom” is uncommon French (frequency #75,795 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,795
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interphone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intercom · intercom · French
intercom · rank #75,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,795
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interceptent
Nearest frequency peer: interceptent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intercom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- institutes
institutes
24,209 corpus weight
- insultaient
insultaient
24,208 corpus weight
- interceptent
interceptent
24,207 corpus weight
- intercom
intercom
24,206 corpus weight
- interurbains
interurbains
24,205 corpus weight
- inti
inti
24,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intercom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intercom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intercom is uncommon French at frequency #75,795 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interphone.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intercom, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intercom, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-O-M.
Definition
- 1Interphone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intercom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai bien peur que nous n’arrivions trop tard… grommela Nolan près de lui, mais Warden ne l’entendit pas, car l’autre avait coupé l’intercom.
Le bourdonnement lancinant de l’intercom réveilla Dale Jedelsky vers quatre heures du matin, alors que le jour commençait à teinter les vitres polarisées de son module résidence, situé à la périphérie de la base.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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